The Great Typo Hunt: Changing the World One Correction at a Time

Document Type

Book Review

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Volume

88

Issue

2

Publisher

SAGE

Publication Date

6-2011

First Page

449

Last Page

450

Abstract

This is the most important available analysis of the crisis of journalism, exhibiting critical skills of which alarmingly few North American analysts are capable. NBria Almiron is lecturer and researcher in communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Her political economy approach goes well beyond the platitudes of death-by-Internet sermonizing, even beyond the themes of concentration and overreach so well-rehearsed by Robert McChesney. McChesney and Nichols (2010) regret the passing of a Golden Age that preceded advertising. For Almiron, journalism is in perpetual crisis, hapless child of bourgeois parents-freedom of the press as formulated in the Declaration of Rights of the State of Virginia (1776) and in the French Revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), eternally abused by the “instrumentalization” of dominant classes.

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Originally Published by SAGE in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly: http://jmq.sagepub.com/content/88/2/430.full.pdf+html

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